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Volume 139, Issue 3 , Pages 498-506 , 31 October 2008

Chronic pain and gender in Salvador population, Brazil

  • Katia Nunes Sá

      Affiliations

    • Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, Fundação Bahiana para Desenvolvimento das Ciências, Programa de Pos-graduacao e extensao da, Rua D.Joao VI, 274 – Brotas, 40290-000 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +55 71 3276 8200; fax: +55 71 8883 5057.
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  • Abrahão Fontes Baptista

      Affiliations

    • Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, Fundação Bahiana para Desenvolvimento das Ciências, Programa de Pos-graduacao e extensao da, Rua D.Joao VI, 274 – Brotas, 40290-000 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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  • Marcos Almeida Matos

      Affiliations

    • Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, Fundação Bahiana para Desenvolvimento das Ciências, Programa de Pos-graduacao e extensao da, Rua D.Joao VI, 274 – Brotas, 40290-000 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
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  • Ínes Lessa

      Affiliations

    • Instituto de Saúde Coletiva, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil

Received 6 January 2008 ,Revised 27 April 2008 ,Accepted 2 June 2008.

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PII: S0304-3959(08)00299-6

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2008.06.008

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